Many IT organizations are reaping the benefits of Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Join this webcast to learn about the compelling business case these organizations have already discovered. Forrester Research Vice President Margo Visitacion will explain the critical information that PPM can provide to support comprehensive decision making. In addition, she’ll discuss how PPM impacts the business and what results can be achieved, based on an organization's level of maturity.
Alan Calder: IT Governance: Strategically Essential or Transiently Fashionable?
IT governance is one of today’s hottest IT topics. But what is IT governance really? Is it a passing fad, or is it something of lasting business benefit? Author and industry expert Alan Calder will examine these questions and many more as part of Compuware Changepoint’s IT Governance webcast series.
Improving IT Governance—A Process Approach Featured Speaker: Ravi Chander, vice president of quality consulting for Satyam Computer Services
As a result of new regulations, the increased use of external service providers and automation of business processes, achieving IT Governance has never been more challenging. Satyam Vice President of Quality Consulting Ravi Chander will explore this vital topic as part of Compuware Changepoint’s IT Governance webcast series.
Integrated IT Management (IIM): Margo Visitacion, Analyst at Forrester Research
Dash-board type views permit business managers and executives to see business events, understand their subsequent impact and take corrective action. In this webcast, Margo Visitacion of Forrester Research, discusses how convergence across application portfolio management (APM) and project portfolio management (PPM) will culminate in integrated IT management (IIM) dashboards, which will enable IT management to reduce budgets by as much as 30% while realizing value of 10-15% within the first year.
Because applications drive the business, they must be available, useful, reliable, scalable, and now more than ever - secure. But who in the corporation owns application security?
Is your application development organization ready to implement security processes into development cycles? To find out, join experts from Gartner, Inc. and Compuware as they address the growing security challenges and deliver practical advice on building more secure applications.
Implementing Model Driven Architecture (MDA) doesn’t have to be hard. Hear the reasons why from Jon Kern in this Tech Talk Webcast titled “Software is Easy!” Kern is an expert in the field of agile development with pragmatic MDA, and is the co-author of The Agile Manifesto. He uses a combination of expertise and wit to examine the pragmatic approach to MDA, including project management, modeling, development and architecture. Kern will also discuss how Compuware OptimalJ can make implementing MDA easier, and where the future of software development is headed.
Practical Best Practices for Application Development
When it comes to using best practices in Microsoft-based development, many organizations are still stuck at square one. The good news is that you don’t need to turn your organization upside down to take advantage of basic disciplines that save you time, money and effort, while improving overall application quality. Join software development industry experts David Kelly, Founder and President of Upside Research, and Chris Davis, Subject Matter Expert for Compuware, for a practical discussion on how to leverage the best of best practices for developing applications.
What you’ll learn:
Why you should care about best practices
The Top 5 development best practices to get started today
What you can do yourself, and when to consider outside help
How development tools can automate best practices
What other organizations are doing today with best practices
Stored Procedures, UDFs and Triggers—Common Logic or Common Problem?
Internationally recognized DB2 experts Susan Lawson and Daniel Luksetich of Yevich, Lawson and Associates discuss proper ways to write and use DB2 Stored Procedures, including how SQL statements, program logic, WLM, user-defined functions and triggers fit in.
The emergence of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a fundamental architecture in rapidly building mission-critical enterprise applications creates significant challenges in assuring the quality and reliability of these services. Any failure of an individual service means one or more applications depending on that service will also experience downtime. Development teams must assure their web services achieve the same high levels of quality as individual applications. A key facet of this challenge is the ability to anticipate and recover from application and environment errors to prevent catastrophic failures.
In this webcast produced through publisher FTP Online, David Falkenstein of Compuware and Peter Varhol of Technology Strategy Research show you how development teams utilizing Microsoft technologies can write better error-handling code and test that code through error simulation to ensure the highest-quality web services possible.
The reality of application development is that it is quite tedious to manually implement design patterns in a large application—maybe not on your first TransferObject, but definitely by the time you hit your fiftieth. A better way to harness the power of patterns is to describe your intended technical architecture in the form of a pattern framework, then have it automatically applied to the problem domain at hand. Over the last couple of years, Compuware has been helping to formalize a development approach that does just that. It calls this approach model-driven, pattern-based (MDPB) development. In this session, Mike Burba, Product Manager of Compuware's OptimalJ, will describe how this technique is used to build J2EE applications.
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Compuware and Software Development Magazine present: "Web Application Performance: What You Don't Know Can Slow You Down"
If you're building distributed web applications with .NET, not only do you expect different components to work together, you need them to do so efficiently. But components can come from different developers and diverse teams, causing unexpected bottlenecks. The result? The regular failure of web applications to function under pressure, scale reliably and provide secure service to their customers. Join Peter Varhol, a widely published columnist and a member of Compuware's senior development staff, John Robbins, cofounder of Wintellect, a training, debugging and consulting firm, and Alexandra Weber Morales, editor in chief of Software Development, as they discuss why distributed web applications perform poorly—including some highly visible failures. You'll come away with a solid understanding of how to diagnose these problems at the unit-testing and application-testing level and learn which analysis tools and techniques are essential to banish them from your shop.
Webcast was held Wednesday, April 21, 2004.
Quality Assurance
Optimize SAP Performance with Life-cycle Solutions from IntelliCorp and Compuware
IntelliCorp & Compuware will show you how automated analysis provides an immediate, comprehensive view of how your business is leveraging SAP to help plan for your next life-cycle event. Our offerings are designed to optimize your SAP application performance, while lowering total cost of ownership and increasing your ability to take advantage of SAP's newest technology.
Implementing Data Privacy Assurance in the Application Testing Environment
With the advent of new government regulations and fast approaching compliance deadlines, protecting sensitive data is of critical importance. Even if you are taking steps to protect your production data, it may not be enough. The same data privacy precautions also need to be applied to your test data. Learn the right processes and procedures to effectively address data privacy requirements in the test environment with Compuware's four-step, best practices approach to developing a data privacy solution. Sign up today!
Code Coverage: A Better Way of Testing to CYA (Cover Your Assets)
What are you willing to risk when deploying an application? Quality? Cost? Performance? Your job? Unless you’ve implemented code coverage into your business, you’re gambling against the odds.
Don’t miss your opportunity to learn how Xpediter/Code Coverage can help you validate your testing performed on an application’s underlying business logic. You’ll also hear how many Compuware customers are using Xpediter/Code Coverage to measure and improve the effectiveness of their testing efforts, while providing management with test-coverage statistics and risk-assessment reports. Sign up today!
When Is Enough "Enough?" Automated End-to-end Testing With QACenter
It's no surprise that testing can be a tedious task, especially when you don't have a comprehensive view into your complex systems and you can't determine when you have tested enough. Hear how large organizations are performing realistic, economical and thorough testing across their multi-tier environments. Learn how you can improve your ROI by streamlining your testing process. Sign up today!
How can you be certain your applications will deliver once they go live? Comprehensive performance testing and monitoring is the best way to determine application readiness. View this presentation to learn how QACenter Performance Edition can provide measurable application performance and reliability information before going live.
Application Service Management
Service Management - Stop Aligning and Start Contributing featuring Jean-Pierre Garbani, Forrester Research Vice President
Visibility into application and service performance provides you with the insight necessary to assess the impact of change on the infrastructure and the information to prioritize and resolve problems, before they impact business users. Don't miss this valuable web cast featuring Forrester Research and Compuware Vantage.
Solve Your Top Five Infrastructure Challenges Today
Industry experts have been calling on IT management to align with the business for years. Now it's time to start contributing to business success. Research results from a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Compuware show IT and the business have aligned on a significant matter: the importance of managing the service provided by their business-critical applications. Most intriguingly, IT is in overwhelming agreement on how to best accomplish this goal.
You can't fix what you can't see, and that could not be truer when troubleshooting J2EE code. See for yourself how Vantage can find more types of problems than any other J2EE solution—without draining production resources.
J2EE Application Service Management—Necessary Steps to Keep Your Eye on the Prize
Businesses of all sizes are aggressively choosing Java as the programming language of choice for rapid, low-cost application development. What they have realized is that J2EE will ultimately yield a prize—a high-performing, scalable application delivering all the value at a fraction of traditional prices.
Compuware Presents: "Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? Using Abend-AID to Diagnose DB2 and WebSphere MQ Problems"
Don't miss this opportunity to hear performance specialist Gary Deneszczuk discuss the need for a good fault management tool. Learn how Abend-AID Fault Manager can help you monitor, measure, control and improve the fault resolution process.
